In this exciting new study, Bahru Zewde, one of the foremost historians of modern Ethiopia, has constructed a collective biography of a remarkable group of men and women in a formative period of their country's history. Ethiopia's political independence at the end of the nineteenth century put this new African state in a position to determine its own levels of engagement with the West. Ethiopians went to study in universities around the world. They returned with the skills of their education acquired in Europe and America, and at home began to lay the foundations of a new literature and political philosophy. Pioneers of Change in Ethiopia describes the role of these men and women of ideas in the social and political transformation of the young nation and later in the administration of Haile Selassie.
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"Bahru Zewde has written a slender but substantial book with admirable concision, clarity, and even-handedness." (African Studies Review) "This spendid history is well worth [the] attention of serious students of Ethiopian and African history." (American Historical Review) "An important and compelling book." (Northeast African Studies) "A new and distinctive contribution to African biography that also addresses the underrepresentation of intellectual history in Africa.... A piece of meticulous research and lucid prose." (International Journal of African Historical Studies) "Makes an important contribution worthy of a place in everyone's library." (International Journal of Ethiopian Studies)
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978-0-8214-4793-2 (9780821447932)
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Bahru Zewde is a senior lecturer in history at Addis Ababa University.
